Spinner Lakshan Sandakan starred in Sri Lanka's hard fought three-wicket win over South Africa in the only Twenty20 international after bowling out the visitors for their lowest total in the game's shortest format.

The party leaders of the Joint Opposition (JO) today appointed a committee of experts led by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Professor G.L. Peiris to study the matter of becoming independent in Parliament.

A group of female inmates who were protesting on top of the roof of the Welikada Prison are reported to have taken to the Prisons Headquarters for a discussion with a higher official of the Prisons Department, sources said.

At least 22 people were killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in torrential rains on Tuesday morning over buildings in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, and the deputy transport minister said the death toll would rise.

cricket.com.auOn this day: Cricket's most famous duckcricket.com.auTwo balls later, he's striding back to The Oval dressing room, having recorded the most famous duck in Test cricket history. Bradman was bowled second ball by Eric Hollies, a Warwickshire leg-spinner for whom the rowdiest stand at Edgbaston is now ...